Author Archives: Ralph

No vaccine for stupidity: Truth Team suggests Tea Party wants you to get the flu

http://twitter.com/#!/OFATruthTeam/status/388341811569123328 Echoes of Alan “Die Quickly” Grayson. Ugh. http://twitter.com/#!/PragueArtist/status/388343869831512064 They just can’t help themselves. *** Related: Class warfare alert! Obama’s ‘Truth Team’ pushes Romney’s ‘high dollar friends’ meme Obama’s ‘Truth Team’ is full of it, says… Jake Tapper of ABC News (echoing conservatives on Twitter) Obama ‘Truth Team’ selectively edits Romney health care quote, has to be…

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I Had No Clue Where He Was Going With This… And Now I’m Starving And Ready To Make It, Too.

It’s hard to get really excited over recipes (unless you’re a brilliant cook, which I am not). But, this recipe in particular found a way to make me actually… happy. It’s unofficially called “mystery pizza bread.” The fact that there pizza, bread AND mystery involved should let you know this is going to be one…

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President uses R-word in reference to Washington’s football team

http://twitter.com/#!/GregJKrieg/status/369884851463532544 Sorry, Slate. Either President Obama didn’t bother to read your piece explaining why the name “Redskins” should be retired for good, or he just wasn’t compelled to follow Slate’s lead and refer to Washington’s NFL team as the Washington _____. No, the president went ahead and said the R-word right in front of the TV…

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Whoops! Did Anderson Cooper feud with a fake Alec Baldwin Twitter account?

http://twitter.com/#!/sweeetbea/status/402690361690046464 Last week CNN anchor Anderson Cooper shredded suspended MSNBC host Alec Baldwin for “repeatedly lying” about calling a photographer a “cocksucking fag” (or “cocksucking fathead,” according to Baldwin’s expert acoustic analysts). In two now-deleted Sunday night tweets, Baldwin hit back by needling Cooper about his performance … in the ratings. But the Cooper/Baldwin feud…

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This F-bomb brought to you by LA Mayor Eric Garcetti [Vine]

http://twitter.com/#!/aus_ruth/status/478643476452487170 Amazingly, this post isn’t about Joe Biden but rather Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who pulled a Joe Biden on TV while celebrating the L.A. Kings’ Stanley Cup victory over the New York Rangers. http://twitter.com/#!/laura_nelson/status/478643460300238851 Well, it is a big day. http://twitter.com/#!/ChrisMootooLA/status/478644422339338241 http://twitter.com/#!/7FindingForever/status/478643819190054912 http://twitter.com/#!/EvenFlow_10/status/478643224970403841 Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/06/16/this-f-bomb-brought-to-you-by-la-mayor-eric-garcetti-vine/

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Folklore Genres

The essays in Folklore Genres represent development in folklore genre studies, diverging into literary, ethnographic, and taxonomic questions. The study as a whole is concerned with the concept of genre and with the history of genre theory. A selective bibliography provides a guide to analytical and theoretical works on the topic. The literary-oriented articles conceive…

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Matters of Fact in Jane Austen

In Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity, Janine Barchas makes the bold assertion that Jane Austen’s novels allude to actual high-profile politicians and contemporary celebrities as well as to famous historical figures and landed estates. Barchas is the first scholar to conduct extensive research into the names and locations in Austen’s…

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